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2025-12-18 14:14:56
[Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Spreads Rumors, "Deletes Account and Runs Away"] Japanese Vice Foreign Minister and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of the House of Representatives, Fumino Kunimitsu, has recently spread numerous false statements targeting the opposition parties. Her personal social media account, X, has been discovered to have been deleted, leading Japanese media to sarcastically accuse her of "deleting her account and running away." Earlier this month, Kunimitsu claimed on an online program that during her time as an official in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, she was forced to do extensive preparation work to answer questions from Constitutional Democratic Party (HDP) Senator Hiroyuki Konishi. "I only had 10 minutes to answer, but Konishi asked me about 50 questions, making it impossible to take care of my children. Many female officials resigned because of this." The HDP considered these claims seriously untrue and protested to the LDP. Kunimitsu subsequently retracted her statements and apologized to Konishi. (CCTV)
